How to format your references using the Annual Review of Marine Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Marine Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Theissen G. 2001. Genetics of identity. Nature. 414(6863):491

A journal article with 2 authors

Pisharody SN, Jones RR. 2004. Probing two-electron dynamics of an atom. Science. 303(5659):813–15

A journal article with 3 authors

Männikkö R, Elinder F, Larsson HP. 2002. Voltage-sensing mechanism is conserved among ion channels gated by opposite voltages. Nature. 419(6909):837–41

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Thakkar S, Nanaware-Kharade N, Celikel R, Peterson EC, Varughese KI. 2014. Affinity improvement of a therapeutic antibody to methamphetamine and amphetamine through structure-based antibody engineering. Sci. Rep. 4:3673

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Segal HP. 2012. Utopias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

McGee RW, ed. 2009. Corporate Governance in Transition Economies. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Gavrilovska A, Schwan K, Amur H, Krishnan B, Vidyashankar J, et al. 2012. Understanding and Managing IT Power Consumption: A Measurement-Based Approach. In Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers, eds. Y Joshi, P Kumar, pp. 169–97. Boston, MA: Springer US

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annual Review of Marine Science.

Blog post

Evans K. 2017. Growing Up Without Siblings May Affect Your Brain’s Development. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1975. Adult Basic Education Program: Progress in Reducing Illiteracy and Improvements Needed. MWD-75-61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Thom RC. 2017. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pacifica Graduate Institute

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kelly C. 2008. Finishing Tarrytown Hall, in Nick of Time. New York Times, March 2, , p. WE2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Theissen 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pisharody & Jones 2004; Theissen 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pisharody & Jones 2004)
Three or more authors: (Thakkar et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Marine Science
Abbreviation	Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1941-1405
ISSN (online)	1941-0611
Scope	Oceanography